Recipient of the ETH Medal for his PhD thesis in 2013; Six Teaching Excellence Awards, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (upon nomination of undergraduate students) since 2019, and two Excellence Awards by the head of department; An Associate Editor for Automatica since 2020, and for IEEE Control Systems Letters since 2023; Also an Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board: IEEE CSS, EUCA and IFAC.
Research Experience
From December 2012 till December 2013, a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich working with Prof. John Lygeros; From January 2014 till January 2015, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Shmuel Oren; From February 2015 till February 2016, a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, at Politecnico di Milano, working with Prof. Maria Prandini; Since March 2016, an Associate Professor at the Control Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.
Education
Received the Diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2008 and the Ph.D. in automatic control from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in November 2012, under the supervision of Prof. John Lygeros.
Background
Research interests: Control and Optimization of Complex Systems, including Reachability analysis and optimal control of hybrid systems; Randomized and robust optimization; Statistical learning theory; Decentralized and distributed computation; Energy and transportation operations in smart cities.
Miscellany
Also a Fellow in AI & Machine Learning at Reuben College, and a Lecturer at Worcester College.